Revolution Basics
When a group starts a major change in government or society.
What is a revolution?
A major cause of the American Revolution
What are high taxes without representation in parliament?
The three ideals that were the basis of the French Revolution.
What is “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”? (Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité)
After overthrowing the Directory, Napoleon crowned himself.
What is Emperor of France.
A key leader of independence movements in South America.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
The philosophical movement that inspired many revolutions in the 1700s and 1800s.
What is the Enlightenment?
The document that declared humans have unalienable rights that evenGod can't take away. (Break up text)
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The unfair system consisting of three groups in France before the French Revolution.
What is the Estates System (Ancien Regime)?
This established a legal framework that allowed for all men to be equal under the law.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
The idea that the old social order is more effective at governing than the current times.
What is conservatism?
The War that caused Britain to tax American colonies to pay the war debt.
What is the Seven Years War? (French Indian War)
A prison whose storming symbolized the start of the revolution.
What is the Bastille?
He created an efficient government by implementing the following institutions...
What are public schools, a central bank, and fairer taxes.
The Haitian Revolution was historically significant...
What is it created the first free Black republic?
Enlightenment idea for a government that emphasizes individual freedoms and equal rights.
What is liberalism?
Montesquieu's idea that is reflected in the US Constitution.
What are the separation of powers into three branches?
The French king executed during the revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
He first gained national attention when he forced the British out of a French city by finding artillery weapons.
What is the Siege of Toulon?
A priest that called for racial equality and economic justice in Mexico.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
A forceful overthrow of a government.
What is a coup d'état?
The basic natural rights listed in the Declaration of Independence.
What are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness?
The causes of the French Revolution.
What are unfair voting system, a monarchy out of touch with the problems experienced by the peasants and a right to participate in writing laws?
After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon was exiled to this remote island.
What is St. Helena?
Simon Bolivar was born in the Americas to Spanish parents. He was not considered Spanish but considered...
What is criollo?